There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.